Between Bodies and Borders: The place of the natural in the thought of M. K. Gandhi and V. D. Savarkar
2020; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 55; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0026749x19000064
ISSN1469-8099
Autores Tópico(s)Anthropological Studies and Insights
ResumoAbstract This article investigates the relationship between ideas of nature and those of politics in the thought of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. In particular, it seeks to elucidate the connection between conceptions of nature and the use of violence as a means of revolutionary action in the philosophies of both thinkers, locating the point of their divergence on the question of violence in their respective understandings of the natural world. For Savarkar, such a relationship manifests itself in the ways in which he understands the notion of borders, both geographic and political. In contrast, Gandhi places his focuses on the individual's use of their body. Both understandings, this article holds, depend on a view of nature as politics.
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